Wannsee Conference

On January 20, 1942, a meeting of high-level Nazi officials representing the SS and police, the party, and various government ministries took place at a villa on the Wannsee near Berlin. What later became known as the "Wannsee Conference" was convened by Head of the Security Police and the Security Service of the SS Reinhard Heydrich. At the meeting, Heydrich and others discussed coordination of efforts for the implementation of the the genocidal plan for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."